23:1 Thou shalt not receive a vain report:
thou shalt not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.
23:2 Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not
join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut
out judgment.
23:3 And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.
23:4 And if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
turn them back and restore them to him.
23:5 And if thou see thine enemy's ass fallen under its burden, thou shalt
not pass by it, but shalt help to raise it with him.
23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.
23:7 Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the
innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.
23:8 And thou shalt not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the
seeing, and corrupt just words.
23:9 And ye shall not afflict a stranger, for ye know the heart of a
stranger; for ye were yourselves strangers in the land of Egypt.
23:10 Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it.
23:11 But in the seventh year thou shalt let it rest, and leave it, and the
poor of thy nation shall feed; and the wild beasts of the field shall eat
that which remains: thus shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thine
oliveyard.
23:12 Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall
be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy
maid-servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
23:13 Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded yo; and ye shall make
no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of
your mouth.
23:14 Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year.
23:15 Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days ye shall
eat unleavened bread, as I charged thee at the season of the month of new
[corn], for in it thou camest out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear before me
empty.
23:16 And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first-fruits of thy
labours, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of
completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of
thy field.
23:17 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy
God.
23:18 For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall
have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.
23:19 Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land
into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its
mother's milk.
23:20 And, behold, I send my angel before thy face, that he may keep thee in
the way, that he may bring thee into the land which I have prepared for
thee.
23:21 Take heed to thyself and hearken to him, and disobey him not; for he
will not give way to thee, for my name is on him.
23:22 If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I
shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar
people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me
a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the
children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things
I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to
thine adversaries.
23:23 For my angel shall go as thy leader, and shall bring thee to the
Amorite, and Chettite, and Pherezite, and Chananite, and Gergesite, and
Evite, and Jebusite, and I will destroy them.
23:24 Thou shalt not worship their gods, nor serve them: thou shalt not do
according to their works, but shalt utterly destroy them, and break to
pieces their pillars.
23:25 And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and
thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.
23:26 There shall not be on thy land one that is impotent or barren. I will
surely fulfil the number of thy days.
23:27 And I will send terror before thee, and I will strike with amazement
all the nations to which thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies
to flee.
23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt cast out the
Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from thee.
23:29 I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate,
and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
23:30 By little [and little] I will cast them out from before thee, until
thou shalt be increased and inherit the earth.
23:31 And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the
Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I
will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them
out from thee.
23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.
23:33 And they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin
against me; for if thou shouldest serve their gods, these will be an offence
to thee. |
23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report:
put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak
in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
surely bring it back to him again.
23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and
wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay
thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a
stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof:
23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the
poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field
shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
oliveyard.
23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and
the stranger, may be refreshed.
23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make
no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy
mouth.
23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of
the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear
before me empty:)
23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou
hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of
the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.
23:17 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD
God.
23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not
pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then
I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries.
23:23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after
their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down
their images.
23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread,
and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfil.
23:27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to
whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs
unto thee.
23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land
become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until
thou be increased, and inherit the land.
23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee.
23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me:
for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. |